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Johannes Patruus

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Apr 15, 2012, 4:07:16 PM4/15/12
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Johannes Patruus wrote on 15 apr 2012 in alt.language.latin:

> http://www.news.va/en/news/vatican-apostolic-library-to-digitise-a-mill
> ion-pa

in·cu·nab·u·la [in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luh, ing-]
plural noun, singular in·cu·nab·u·lum [-luhm]

1.
extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of
printing from movable type.

2.
the earliest stages or first traces of anything.

Origin:
1815–25; < Latin: straps holding a baby in a cradle, earliest home,
birthplace, probably equivalent to *incuna ( re ) to place in a cradle (
in- in-2 + *-cunare, verbal derivative of cunae cradle) + -bula, plural
of -bulum suffix of instrument; def. 1 as translation of German
Wiegendrucke

<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/incunabula>

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